Each year on Valentine’s Day, Vision Eternel offers either a new concept extended play, or, in lieu of one being ready, an exclusive unreleased song from its archives. Named Valentine’s Day Exclusive, this tradition has been going on since the mid-2000s.
This year, Vision Eternel is offering for free download the song Sometimes In Absence, which was recorded in 2010 during the planning stage of an abandoned full-length album (which eventually became The Last Great Torch Song, released through Abridged Pause Recordings on March 14, 2012). The song is accompanied by an ink drawing...
Three and a half years after starting the project, Vision Eternel’s For Farewell Of Nostalgia extended play is finally out! The concept release is a narrative about how emotionally devastating falling in love too fast can be and the aftermath of a heartbreak. Sometimes, looking for tender affection can be detrimental; this tale of infatuation, wounding absence, intimacy, melancholia and never-ending nostalgia intends to make the listener feel every bit of that.
Alexander Julien began composing and recording demos for the extended play in 2017. For Farewell Of Nostalgia was first...
For Farewell Of Nostalgia is Vision Eternel‘s newest concept EP. It is a narrative of how emotionally devastating falling in love too fast can be and the aftermath of a heartbreak. Sometimes, looking for tender affection can be detrimental; this tale of infatuation, wounding absence, intimacy, melancholia and never-ending nostalgia intends to make the listener feel every bit of that.
Alexander Julien began composing and recording demos for the release in 2017. For Farewell Of Nostalgia was first recorded over seven months from April to October 2018. Unsatisfied with these original...
Vision Eternel’s new extended play For Farewell Of Nostalgia has been kept private over the last few months while awaiting the September 14, 2020 release date. With the exception of some considerably different pre-production recordings that were released on Various Artists compilations in 2018 and 2019, and a teaser video titled A Preview Of For Farewell Of Nostalgia made available with Somewherecold Records’ and Geertruida’s pre-orders last summer, nothing else has been heard.
The distinguished online magazine Invisible Oranges is ending the silence today with an exclusive...
For Farewell Of Nostalgia, Vision Eternel‘s newest extended play, will be released digitally through Abridged Pause Recordings on September 14th 2020. The release will also be coming out on compact disc and compact cassette through partnering record labels.
The Compact Disc Edition will be released through American record label Somewherecold Records. It will be packaged in a four-panel eco-wallet, factory-numbered and limited to 100 copies. The CD will feature an exclusive bonus song, unavailable elsewhere. This edition will also include a booklet with a short story written by...
Happy new year!
Vision Eternel compact discs and t-shirts available.
When Abridged Pause Recordings released the boxed set “An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes” in 2018, a handful of “Promotional Press Bundles” were made. These were previously reserved for members of the press, but since the boxed set is sold-out, we figured it was a good time to make the left-over press-copies available to the public. There are only 8 copies of each EP left (which were originally reserved for 8 press packages).
These are available either individually or as a “Limited Edition...
As of last night, Vision Eternel’s boxed set “An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes” is sold out! And this past summer, Soufferance’s “Travels” boxed set sold out! Abridged Pause Recordings and the bands would like to once again thank each and every one of you who purchased a copy of one of these. It really means a lot! Another big thanks to those who were involved in the making of these boxed sets!
So what’s next?
For Vision Eternel:
1- The search begins for a new container box that can hold the contents of Vision Eternel’s boxed set. There are a...
On May 24th, Vision Éternel undertook an excursion in the Laurentian Mountains forest to film a new documentative video. Luckily, it was a beautiful sunny day, and despite the bugs enjoying the weather as much as we were, we had a lot of fun. We found a nice clearing in the middle of the woods where we set up the shot with cinematographer Rain Frances. The new footage was filmed to showcase and discuss the band’s newest release, the “An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes” boxed set, released through Abridged Pause Recordings last month. Vision Éternel founder Alexandre Julien...
For the last eight years, Vision Éternel founder Alexandre Julien has been working on the retrospective boxed set “An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes” to give a proper physical home to the band’s previous releases (2007-2015). Now that it’s out through Abridged Pause Recordings, the band is eager to move forward with new material. Vision Éternel is now actively writing and demoing new songs for a planned sixth extended play.
It has been three years since the most recent extended play was released, 2015’s “Echoes From Forgotten Hearts” which was...
On April 11th of 2018, Vision Éternel announced a giveaway contest in promotion of the band’s new retrospective boxed set, “An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes“. Contestants had a full month to enter the drawing by sending an email to the band with their favourite Vision Éternel t-shirt color and size. Vision Éternel, Abridged Pause Recordings and The Obelisk would like to thank all the wonderful people and fans of the band who participated in this contest.
Today, the band is proud to announce a lucky winner who will not only receive a full boxed set, which in itself...
After eight years as an idea and four years in active making, Vision Éternel’s long-anticipated boxed set “An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes” is finally out! Released through Abridged Pause Recordings, the collection features five compact discs, one cassette, two stickers, six business card flyers and a two-page postcard insert.
The five compact discs include all five Vision Éternel extended plays released to date, covering 2007-2015: “Seul Dans L’obsession” (2007), “Un Automne En Solitude” (2008), “Abondance De Périls” (2010)...
After eight years as an idea and four years in active making, Vision Éternel’s long-anticipated boxed set “An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes” is finally out! Released through Abridged Pause Recordings, the collection features five compact discs, one cassette, two stickers, six business card flyers and a two-page postcard insert.
The five compact discs include all five Vision Éternel extended plays released to date, covering 2007-2015: “Seul Dans L’obsession” (2007), “Un Automne En Solitude” (2008), “Abondance De Périls” (2010)...
To celebrate the upcoming release of Vision Éternel‘s long-anticipated boxed set “An Anthology Of Past Misfortunes“, the band has partnered up with American webzine The Obelisk for a very special premiere and giveaway package. The collection is scheduled to be released in two days, on April 14th of 2018, through Canadian independent record label Abridged Pause Recordings. Today, The Obelisk is hosting the premiere.
The Premiere:
The Obelisk webzine has been given an exclusive stream to a previously unreleased studio outtake, “Love Within Narcosis (Demo)“...
Vision Éternel announced today that they are working on a new music video. This will be the band’s fifth music video, following “Love Within Narcosis” in 2007, the two versions of “Season In Absence” in 2008 and 2010, and “Pièce No. Trois” in 2017. The new music video will be for the song “Sometimes In Longing Narcosis“, a re-recording and updated version of “Love Within Narcosis“, released on the 2012 EP “The Last Great Torch Song” through Abridged Pause Recordings. Being that the song is a re-recording of an...
Vision Éternel is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with the release of a new music video for the song “Pièce No. Trois“. The song originally appeared on Vision Éternel’s 2015 EP “Echoes From Forgotten Hearts“, released through Abridged Pause Recordings. The footage was filmed by Jeremy Roux in 2012 and edited by Vasily Atutov in 2017. You can read an in-depth story about the making of the music video on Vision Éternel’s website.
Today, August 28th, is an extremely special day because it’s also the birthday of James Wong Howe, one of the most...
Vision Éternel is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with the release of Abridged Pause Apparel’s new t-shirts and stickers. Click here to go straight to Vision Éternel’s shop, or continue reading below for an in-depth description of the merchandise available.
Don’t forget to find out how you can get a 10% discount on the t-shirts at the bottom of this news post!
The first set of shirts feature Jeremy Roux‘s “classic” Vision Éternel logo, which he designed in the summer of 2008. This logo was used heavily during the promotion of the “An Anthology...
As part of Vision Éternel’s 10-year anniversary celebration, it is an extreme pleasure to announce that the respected webzine The Obelisk is premiering our new music video for “Pièce No. Trois“! It’s been seven and a half years since Vision Éternel last released a music video, for “Season In Absence” in March of 2010, so it was about time that a new one was made. “Pièce No. Trois” is one of seven songs that appear on the concept EP “Echoes From Forgotten Hearts“, released through Abridged Pause Recordings on February 14th of...
Vision Éternel is now on Spotify! After years of neglecting the importance of this platform, all five Vision Éternel EPs are now on there for streaming and buying. Three of these EPs were released through Abridged Pause Recordings. Spotify has come a long way since the days of Last.fm, so it’s all about re-building the fan base on this new platform. In order to verify the band’s page, Vision Éternel needs to reach 250 followers. So please, if you use Spotify, either with a free or paid account, “Follow” Vision Éternel on there and show your support for the...
This interview was conducted with Scott Gowan of Pet Slimmers Of The Year (PSOTY) on January 18, 2014, in promotion and anticipation of the band’s exclusive contribution to Abridged Pause Recordings’ Various Artists compilation Billowing Tempestus.
-Hello Scott. Let’s start with a relatively obvious question. What’s the story behind an odd band name like “Pet Slimmers of the Year”? Who’s responsible for finding it?
The band name came about during our first couple of jam sessions once we’d decided we wanted to do the band. It came from the 2006...
Hello fans of Abridged Pause! Welcome to the new year and thank you for caring enough to read this! I really love doing this yearly news post, filled with promises of grandiose releases. Unfortunately there are always a few that end up not happening, but it makes it fun to look back on in the future and it also gives you guys a glimpse into what releases are in the works and being talked about at Abridged Pause Recordings.
First thing on the schedule is a new various artists compilation entitled “Billowing Tempestus“, coming out in February or March of 2016. “Billowing...
The Sound of Rescue is a cinematic ambient and post-rock band currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (but originally founded in Baltimore, Maryland). It was founded in September of 2010 by twin brothers Michael Tasselmyer and Andrew Tasselmyer. Starting in 2011, their younger brother Stephen Tasselmyer sporadically appeared with them on drums.
After seven releases (including albums, extended plays and singles) Michael Tasselmyer and Andrew Tasselmyer started the minimal and drone ambient side-project, Hotel Neon in late 2012. In the fall of 2014, Steven Kemner joined The Sound of...
Ossific is an atmospheric black metal band based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It was founded in the spring of 2011 by Justin Fleming (aka Traumata) on vocals and guitar, Ryan Clark (aka RC) on drums and Chris Cook (aka Selenoclast) on bass. After independently releasing “Demo I” in June of 2011, Cook departed. An EP titled “Closing Shores” was released in December of 2012 featuring live and studio material, partly featuring Cook on bass.
Fleming and Clark then composed and recorded the entirety of Ossific’s (currently unreleased) debut full-length...
Cetus perfectly mixes post-metal, sludge and metalcore into one of the tonally-heaviest music you’ve heard. Formed in 2002 in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, the band is currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
Over their span, the band has featured such members as drummer, guitarist, backup vocalist and producer Matt Buckley; vocalist and visual designer Erich Kriebel; guitarist Matt Hollenberg; guitarist, drummer and backup vocalist Evan Williams; bassist Mike Coonan; bassist Dave Heck; bassist Dan Zimmerman; drummer Jason Fine; and vocalist Brendan McAndrew.
Their...
“This moon lives again”, announces Alexandre Julien, nearly seven years after Vision Lunar posted its farewell status “This moon is dead”. Vision Lunar was founded in October of 2006, went under hiatus in 2007 and ultimately broke up in 2009. From October of 2006 to November of 2007 Vision Lunar released seven demos, always on the day of a full moon. After a farewell discography in 2010 the project was seldom mentioned by its founder but remained popular amongst atmospheric, psychedelic and space-themed black metal lovers.
Eight years after its last recording...
In mid-February of 2015, while demoing new Soufferance ideas, Alexandre Julien wound up recording a random black metal song. It had been a good four years since he last played any metal, choosing instead to focus on his ambient projects Soufferance, Vision Éternel and Citadel Swamp. The metal song was filed away in the “Projection Mina” folder, where heavier ideas usually collected dust. A second black metal song made its way to the same dungeon by the end of the month.
Six months later these two demos were rediscovered and Alexandre decided to revive his old atmospheric black...
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Sorrowbringer is a melodic doom metal based in Mexico City, Mexico. It was founded in June of 2011 by Manuel Chavez (aka Sainte). After releasing a debut EP, “Failed Existence” in August of 2011, Sainte took a break to join the dark ambient band Éphémère. Sorrowbringer is now back in action and will be releasing a brand new song on Abridged Pause Recordings’ upcoming Various Artists compilation “Billowing Tempestus” in early 2016.
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In Cauda Venenum is a French atmospheric black metal. It was founded by Romain Lupino in 2010. The project remained under wraps until the first public announcement in December of 2014, but Romain and drummer Nicolas Deléchenault had secretly been collaborating since 2012.
The band’s self-titled debut release on Lupino’s own record label Émanations quickly caught the attention of Abridged Pause Recordings. After months of begging, In Cauda Venenum finally agreed to partake in Abridged Pause Recordings’ forthcoming Various Artists compilation, “Billowing...
-Phase 1.1 (October 2006 – December 2006)
Vision Lunar is an atmospheric, psychedelic/progressive black metal band founded by Alexandre Julien in the fall of 2006. The idea came to him on Friday October 6th of 2006 as he got off the bus on his way home from a day of working at a local café. This was shortly after he moved back to Montreal, Canada, where he was originally born. Alexandre noticed the full moon and immediately felt the desire to start a new black metal band, dedicated to the moon’s influence. At the time, Alexandre had three other active bands and solo projects;...
Some of you may remember Vision Lunar; Alexandre Julien’s solo atmospheric black metal project. From 2006 to 2007 the project released seven demos, always on a day of the full moon. After going through a hiatus and ultimately breaking up in early 2009, Mortification Records issued a complete discography CD entitled “Phase One (2006-2009)”. This was given away to close friends and collaborators and then released as a free download, massing over four hundred downloads since October of 2010.
Alexandre Julien started working on new Vision Lunar material back in February of 2015...
After Vision Lunar broke up in early 2009, Alexandre Julien had no intention of ever looking back on his atmospheric black metal solo project. But in August of 2010 some fans made it clear that a proper farewell was needed. And so came “Phase One (2006-2009)”, a complete discography of Vision Lunar. The compilation was released by Mortification Records on October 6th of 2010, in an extremely limited edition CD-R (five copies to be exact), and were all autographed and given away to Alexandre’s close friends. But Alexandre wanted everyone to have access to it so Mortification...
Spectrale is an innovative, and genre-defying, project founded by French musician Jeff Grimal in May of 2013. Grimal had already established himself as a painter and played in the black metal band The Great Old Ones.
Jean-Baptiste Poujol started out as an assistant engineer for the project’s two-song demo in April 2015, but was eventually welcomed as a full band member. Spectral is currently writing and recording its debut full-length album. Abridged Pause Recordings will be releasing an exclusive Spectrale song on the forthcoming Various Artists compilation, “Billowing...
Feast is an amazing sludge/doom metal band from Beverwijk, Netherlands. Active since 2006, the band currently features Eduard de Ridder, Marc van Duivenvoorde, Jelle Kunst and Bart van Elst.
After an independently-released demo in 2008 and the captivating “Glacial Heart Of Man” album in 2011, Feast teamed up with Dirty East Godverdomme for a split 7″ vinyl through Crash Landing Records in 2014. That same year, friend of the band Maurice van der Heijden re-issued “Glacial Heart Of Man” on a limited edition cassette tape.
Feat will make their debut appearance on...
Cara Neir is a fantastic grind/crust black metal band from Arlington, Texas. Fronted by vocalist Chris Francis, and backed by multi-instrumentalist, and old-time Abridged Pause Recordings-collaborator, Garry Brents. Brents had previously worked with Abridged Pause Recordings through his post-rock project Parabstruse in 2009, and his shoegaze project Wavre in 2012. That’s why it’s even more of a pleasure to have the opportunity to release Cara Neir’s material!
Since its inception in late 2008, Cara Neir has released a great amount of material of various record labels. Their...
Sky Flying by has been crafting its own style of post-rock since 2002. It took many years until songwriter David Palmer was happy enough with the results to start sharing it with the world. Several self-released albums and EPs later, the band eventually teamed up with Flesh And Bone Records for a cassette tape release in 2014.
For Sky Flying By’s debut with Abridged Pause Recordings, Palmer will be delivering an exclusive song. This emotional piece will appear on Abridged Pause Recordings’ forthcoming Various Artists compilation, “Billowing Tempestus”, due out in early...
Éphémère is a Mexican dark ambient band based in Mexico City. Founded in December of 2009 by keyboardist and principal songwriter Mond Renteria, it originally envisioned to be an atmospheric black metal band. Things changed with the exit of drummer and guitarist Joffre O. Videz (who also played in the bands Delirium Cordia and Nihilistinen Barbaarisuus) before the end of the year. In February of 2010, Canadian guitarist Alexandre Julien (from Vision Eternel and Soufferance) joined and the pair shifted the direction of the band towards ambient. Julien left in May 2010 and the project went...
Den Andre Lys is a brand new Argentinean atmospheric doom metal band. Founded in 2015 by Ragnhild, the band’s first appearance will be on Abridged Pause Recordings’ forthcoming Various Artists compilation “Billowing Tempestus” due out in early 2016. This will be followed by a full-length album.
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Tomb of the Worm was an obscure doomy, grind-metalcore band from Burlington, Ontario. The story begins in January or February of 1999, after Kyle Bishop was unexpectedly expelled from The Swarm aka Knee Deep in the Dead, in December of 1998. Throughout the summer and fall of 1998, Kyle had been composing a few new songs for The Swarm’s planned EP (which ultimately became “Old Blue Eyes Is Dead”, recorded in April of 1999 with a different line-up), including the songs “Crawling Through Glass”, “Best Laid Plans” and “Absent from the Morning...
No it isn’t just a coincidence that Vision Éternel’s new album “Echoes From Forgotten Hearts” gets released on Valentine’s Day. Its sort of a tradition for the band to release their albums on this holiday (when they can), and this goes back to the first EP back in 2007. Vision Éternel’s fifth album, came as a complete surprise to just about everyone. Everyone except maybe Alexandre Julien who was never certain if Vision Éternel would continue to release music after “The Last Great Torch Song” (released in 2012 through Abridged Pause...
Vision Éternel’s fifth album, “Echoes From Forgotten Hearts” came as a complete surprise to just about everyone. Everyone except maybe Alexandre Julien who was never certain if Vision Éternel would continue to release music after “The Last Great Torch Song” (released in 2012 through Abridged Pause Recordings).
This is yet another concept album, as has become the norm for any Alexandre Julien release. But it almost didn’t see a release. Back in the summer of 2014, Alexandre was approached to compose the soundtrack to a short film. When he sent in the...
-Part 1: Incision (Late 1992 – October 1993)
Incision was a band whose reputation surely has never faded. In a way, they were the precursor to Grade. But Incision’s ideals and influences were completely different and revolved solely around straight-edge. Metal-influenced hardcore was pioneered in a triangle between Southern Ontario (Toronto, Hamilton), North Western New York (Syracuse, Buffalo) and Pennsylvania (Erie, Hershey). In this triangle, a tightly knit scene of bands would reinvent the sound of hardcore between 1989 and 1992.
Incision arrived at the tail end of this...
Cascade is a record label formed and mostly operated by Nathan Lelandais-Miller, a musician from Michigan who has been in a number of historically important and influential bands. Over the years, the label has been active under various names; “Cascade Recordings”, “Cascade Records”, “C.A.S.S. Records” (Cascade Audio Sound Spectrum), “C.A.S.S. Works” and most recently as the “Cascade Collective”. Additionally, Nathan has recently been one fifth of the label “Caveman in a Spaceship”. This interview will hopefully serve as...
It’s been nearly three years since Vision Éternel’s last album, “The Last Great Torch Song”, released in March of 2012 through Abridged Pause Recordings. On October 31st 2014, the ambient band announced via their Facebook page, that “After months of silence, I can now confirm that a new Vision Éternel EP is in the works. I have been recording new material for an entire month now and hope to have a 6-7 song release finished by the start of 2015”.
The new Vision Éternel EP will be released on a limited pressing of cassette tapes (as well as digital) in...
-The original line-up (October 1997 – September 1998)
This band has connections all over the Ontario hardcore tree. Before this band even got started a lot of the members had played together in other projects. Chris Colohan, Christian McMaster and Mike Maxymuik had played together in Left for Dead. Mike and Adam Bratt had played together in Gates of Dawn and The Wayouts on top of having known each other since they were kids. Kyle Bishop and Matt Jones had played together in Rebirth and Grade. Kyle and Mike had played together in Acrid.
This brings us to the origin of “The...
The Sneak Preview was a melodic punk rock band from Maple, Ontario. They formed in the summer of 2000, after Joel Bath (drums) and Mike Mucci (guitar) broke up their band “Then Who Is the Liar?”. The duo started writing new songs alone in Joel’s parent’s basement in Thornhill, Ontario, with influences from Dinosaur Jr., Elliot, Sunny Day Real Estate and a few more local Ontario bands. They then invited Mark “Augie” Petja, to join as bassist as he had previously played in Five Finger Discount with them. The final addition would be Marco Fardella on...
After three years sitting in Alexandre Julien’s “vault” (because the hope of seeing this out had been abandoned) Abridged Pause Recordings finally unveils Soufferance’s anticipated third album “Memories of a City”. Years ago this album was completely lost to a computer failure. Then a great series of misfortunes happened, which you can read more about in the “Memories of a City” release page. Finally, the forty minutes of dark ambiance, which is under its own genre, “Artbient”, is getting released by Abridged Pause...
Soufferance’s third album, “Memories of a City”, is a dark reflection of a city which has always been interpreted as colorful and bright to its visitors. Alexandre Julien has a different outlook on the very city he was born in. To him its a film noir movie with plenty of dark corners and alleys, where the most despicable human emotions lay awaiting pray.
“There was a time when Montreal meant happiness to me. A time when a film noir obsession meant watching movies in good company. A time when beauty was present in greyscale reflection from the screen. This album is...
